(n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.
(n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(2) Besides, Francis says, once their reformation had gone on longer than their initial career, the rest of the band were starting to feel wary about just playing the old material, particularly when they found themselves booked to play a Canadian casino, the kind of venue that is traditionally the preserve of oldies acts: "It was just sort of symbolic, like ha-ha, here we are, at the casino.
(3) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(4) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
(5) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(6) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
(7) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
(8) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(9) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
(10) By stepping back from some of the more radical solutions suggested before the election – such as the complete separation of high street banks from "casino" investment banks proposed by business secretary Vince Cable – the commission left the banks "secretly quite pleased", according to Bruce Packard, banks analyst at Seymour Pierce.
(11) The incident occurred inside an elevator at an Atlantic City casino in February, when Rice and Janay Rice were engaged.
(12) He used his Daily Telegraph column to challenge the prevailing wind in the wake of the Libor rate-rigging scandal by warning against regulating banks to "the point that they are too nervous to lend" or getting rid of "casino" investment banking to focus instead on "good old high-street stuff".
(13) Relying on Turner and his successors to patrol the floor of the casino perfectly is asking for trouble.
(14) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
(15) Combined with Jewish retirees, blacks and white casino workers, Latinos form the Democratic base in and around Las Vegas.
(16) Icahn bought Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s troubled New Jersey casino operations out of bankruptcy in March.
(17) With a major strategic industry on the point of a collapse, the prime minister went on holiday , the chancellor was lying low after his catastrophic budget, and the business secretary had jetted off to laud the free market in an Australian casino.
(18) It will promote an environment that is consistent with effective competition; it will challenge abusive monopoly behaviour, take steps to promote competition where customers are being disadvantaged (for instance, in retail banking) and promote long-term investment rather than the casino capitalism that has disadvantaged the UK’s economy and social cohesion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the BBC’s Newsnight programme Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, forgets the name of the Labour’s small businesses leader, Bill Thomas.
(19) That's more moral centre, or law-enforcement presence, than you'll find in GoodFellas and Casino combined.
(20) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
Cassino
Definition:
(n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
Example Sentences:
(1) After this latest example of the English ability to muddle through Franz Beckenbauer may be relieved that the match is not being played just up the road at Monte Cassino.
(2) The political scientist Dan Cassino, who researches conservative media , points out that in the last American National Election Study in 2013, “among all news outlets, including liberal shows, listeners to the Mark Levin program have the highest political knowledge of anyone, and it is the only show whose audience is 100% conservative”.
(3) They’d rather hear why the other side is a bunch of criminals and socialists.” Cassino says that focusing on the left is an easy call.
(4) His appeal to moderates is extremely limited, and Cassino says that his program is primarily about “helping people justify decisions they have already made”.
(5) The importance of the order of Monte Cassino founded by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century is emphasized.
(6) The ceremony coincided with the feast day of St Benedict of Monte Cassino, a significant figure for both Canterbury cathedral, which was a Benedictine monastery 1,000 years ago, and Welby, who is an oblate of the Order of Benedict.